Balancing Communities : : Nation, State, and Protestant Christianity in Korea, 1884–1942 / / Paul S. Cha.

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• VerfasserIn: Cha, Paul S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Any de publicació: 2022
• Idioma: English
• Descripció física: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Starting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, Balancing Communities examines how the competing demands of communal identities and memberships shaped...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Protestant Partners?
• Chapter 1. Tangled Relations: Missionary Work at the Royal Hospital
• Chapter 2. Creating Separation: Moving Beyond Treaty Ports
• Chapter 3. The Conversion Conundrum: The Nevius Method and the Problem of “Rice Christians”
• Chapter 4. Christian Oasis: Church Growth in Hwanghae Province
• Chapter 5. Redefining Relations: Missionaries and the Japanese Colonial Government
• Chapter 6. Ecclesiastical Extraterritoriality: Missionary Power, Ecclesiastical Autonomy, and Church Schisms
• Chapter 7. Ties Severed: Shinto Shrines and the Expulsion of Missionaries
• Conclusion: Communities Reimagined
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author